(Reuters) - A suicide bomber drove a car packed with explosives into a crowd of officers outside a police station in Baghdad on Sunday, killing four and wounding 12, a source in Iraq's Interior Ministry said.
he bomber struck as the officers were changing shifts in the mainly Shi'ite Amil district in the southwestern area of the Iraqi capital, the source said. Another six officers were wounded when a bomb attached to a parked car exploded near their patrol in eastern Baghdad.
Tensions have been running high since a March 7 parliamentary election that produced no clear winner, forcing potentially divisive negotiations between Iraq's Shi'ite, Sunni and Kurdish political factions to agree a new government.
Although overall violence has tumbled since the worst of Iraq's sectarian warfare in 2006-07 killed tens of thousands, civilian deaths have climbed since the vote.
Iraqi authorities said 275 civilians were killed in bomb blasts and other attacks in May and 274 in April, up from 216 in March and 211 in February.
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